Current Highlights
Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International City
Professor Magnus Marsden leads this multi-sited and interdisciplinary research project centred on the Chinese city of Yiwu, engaging researchers and theoretical approaches in anthropology, area studies, business studies, and history and drawing on expertise from law, commercial shipping, and international trade policy.
Inter-Asian Dynamics Research Network
Professor Magnus Marsden leads a new network exploring the nature of connections, comparisons and circulations across multiple Asian settings.
Narrating Blood
Professor Maya Unnithan, director of the Centre for Cultures, Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH), is building an international network for cross-cultural research and intervention into blood-related reproductive and adolescent health and care-economies in India, Bangladesh, Ghana and the UK.
Environmental History of South Asia
Professor Vinita Damodaran uses historical records to understand climate change in the Indian Ocean World.
Woman's Leadership in the Asian Century
Professor Louise Morley, Director of the Centre of Higher Education and Equity Research, explores women and academic leadership in Asia.
Recent Events
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Tracking wind and waves with fishers and forecasters
Our work in Thiruvananthapuram in south India supported by the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme aims at better risk communication for local...
Come and get involved with the Language Cafe next year
Language Cafe is a great way of making friends and building skills.
Sussex exchange partnership wins Chinese national scholarship award
A student exchange partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen has been recognised as outstanding by China’s Ministry of Education.
The Sussex Asia Centre welcomes Professor Haiyun Zhang
The Sussex Asia Centre is delighted to welcome Professor Haiyun Zhang from Qinghai Nationalities University in China as our Visiting Professor....
Three new International Research Partnerships and Network Fund awards made
Sussex Research and the International Office have made three awards under the International Research Partnerships and Network Fund.
Record numbers of Sussex students take part in summer schools at top global partners
Over 125 undergraduates will head out to leading international partners over the coming weeks, all supported by around £65,000 in bursaries.
New international media programme first of its kind in the UK and Hong Kong
A delegation from the University were hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to launch a joint International Programme on Global Communication.
Critical minds needed more than ever to navigate global media landscape, say Sussex and CUHK
In the face of an increasing challenging global media landscape, we need media literate-graduates more than ever to understand the world we live in.
Chinese University of Hong Kong opens its doors to Sussex researchers
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is now inviting applications from Sussex faculty members for the Inbound Research Mobility Scheme.
Fourth round of the International Research Partnerships and Networks Fund launched
A fourth round of the International Research Partnerships and Networks Fund has been launched by Sussex Research and the International Office today.
Opportunities for Sussex PhD students to visit Hong Kong for research collaborations
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is inviting applications from doctoral researchers at Sussex for its Global Scholarship Programme.
Sussex launches Global Excellence Summer Programme for 2017
The University has teamed up with world-leading institutional partners to provide summer study opportunities for Sussex students.
Dr Diana Ibanez-Tirado was awarded the Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize
Dr Diana Ibañez-Tirado, Associate Researcher at the Department of Anthropology and the Sussex Asia Centre, was awarded the Irene Hilgers...
China’s e-commerce department visits Sussex
Recent visit paid by the China International Electronic Commerce Centre (CIECC) to foster collaboration with the University of Sussex.
New play commemorating partition of India based on harrowing real-life stories
A play written by a University of Sussex academic who researches the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 is to premier in Crawley next week.
- Upcoming Events
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Commemoration, Memory, Archive Symposium
The symposium investigates commemorative and memorial uses of personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South.
Global Traders in Yiwu and Their Trade Routes
Sussex Asia Centre, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College and China Centre for Electronic Commerce present an international one day workshop.
Commemoration, Memory, Archive Symposium
The symposium investigates commemorative and memorial uses of personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South.
“Afghanistan, Asia and the new Silk Road: Perspectives from the Ground” (EVENT IN KABUL)
Afghanistan, Asia and the new Silk Road: Perspectives from the Ground
Families and corporates: Transformation in Islamic practice of kinship, commerce and charity
This paper tries to capture transformations in marriage and charitable giving practices in contemporary South Indian Muslims.
Beyond the Indian Ocean: Inter-Asian Environments from the Hindu Kush to the Himalayas - Future Research Agendas
Joint event with the Centre for World Environmental History – Shah Mahmoud Hanifi; Magnus Marsden; Vinita Damodaran.
Levelling the Playing Field?: Statebuilding and Ethnicity in Afghanistan’s Bamyan Valley
A presentation by Dr Naysan Adlparvar (Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s Anthropology Department)
'Inter-Asian Encounters and Contested Moralities in Singapore’s Spaces of Care'
A presentation by Megha Amrith (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany)
Hierarchy and Imperialism in Late Colonial Indian International Thought
This paper explores the mixed registers of equality and hierarchy that existed within Indian international thought.
- Contact
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Director:
Professor Magnus Marsden
T: +44 (0)1273 606755 ext2312
E: M.Marsden@sussex.ac.ukUniversity of Sussex Asia Centre
Room C246, Arts C,
University of Sussex
Falmer,
Brighton
BN1 9SJ,
UK